The Registration of Title (No. 2) Order 1988

Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 1854

LAND REGISTRATION, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Registration of Title (No. 2) Order 1988

Made

26th October 1988

Coming into force

1st February 1989

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 26th day of October 1988

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 120(1) and (6) of the Land Registration Act 1925(1) and sections 80(2) and 90 of the London Government Act 1963(2), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order and declare, and it is hereby ordered and declared, as follows:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Registration of Title (No. 2) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 1st February 1989.

2.—(1) In addition to the areas mentioned in column 2 of the Schedule to the Registration of Title Order 1988(3) (being the areas in England and Wales in which registration of title to land is already compulsory on sale) registration of title shall be compulsory on sale,

(a) on and after 1st February 1989 in the districts of East Lindsey and West Lindsey, and

(b) on and after 1st December 1989 in the districts of Alnwick, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Boston, Breckland, Broadland, King’s Lynn and West Norfolk, Mendip, North Kesteven, North Norfolk, Sedgemoor, South Holland, South Kesteven, South Norfolk, South Somerset and Tynedale.

(2) Accordingly, on and after 1st December 1989, registration of title to land shall be compulsory on sale in the areas mentioned in column 2 of the Schedule to this Order.

3.  As from 1st December 1989 the Registration of Title Order 1988 shall cease to have effect.

G.I. de Deney

Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 2(2)

SCHEDULE

(1)	(2)
County or Administrative area	Areas of compulsory registration
Avon	The whole county
Bedfordshire	The whole county
Berkshire	The whole county
Buckinghamshire	The whole county
Cambridgeshire	The whole county
Cheshire	The whole county
Cleveland	The whole county
Clwyd	The whole county
Cornwall	The whole county
Cumbria	The whole county
Derbyshire	The whole county
Devon	The whole county
Dorset	The districts of Bournemouth, Christchurch, East Dorset, Poole, and Weymouth and Portland
Durham	The whole county
Dyfed	The whole county
East Sussex	The whole county
Essex	The districts of Basildon, Braintree, Brentwood, Chelmsford, Colchester, Epping Forest, Harlow, Southend-on-Sea, Thurrock and Uttlesford
Gloucestershire	The whole county
Greater London	The whole administrative area
Greater Manchester	The whole county
Gwent	The whole county
Gwynedd	The whole county
Hampshire	The whole county
Hereford and Worcester	The districts of Bromsgrove, Hereford, Redditch and Worcester
Hertfordshire	The whole county
Humberside	The whole county
Isle of Wight	The whole county
Isles of Scilly	The whole administrative area
Kent	The whole county
Lancashire	The whole county
Leicestershire	The whole county
Lincolnshire	The whole county
Merseyside	The whole county
Mid Glamorgan	The whole county
Norfolk	The whole county
Northamptonshire	The whole county
Northumberland	The whole county
North Yorkshire	The whole county
Nottinghamshire	The whole county
Oxfordshire	The whole county
Powys	The whole county
Shropshire	The districts of Bridgnorth and The Wrekin
Somerset	The whole county
South Glamorgan	The whole county
South Yorkshire	The whole county
Staffordshire	The whole county
Suffolk	The districts of Ipswich and Waveney
Surrey	The whole county
Tyne and Wear	The whole county
Warwickshire	The whole county
West Glamorgan	The whole county
West Midlands	The whole county
West Sussex	The whole county
West Yorkshire	The whole county
Wiltshire	The districts of Thamesdown and West Wiltshire

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order extends the system of compulsory registration of title on sale of land to the districts mentioned in article 2(1)(a) with effect from 1st February 1989 and, to those mentioned in article 2(1)(b) with effect from 1st December 1989.

(1)

1925 c. 21.

(2)

1963 c. 33.

(3)

S.I. 1988/596.